MENACE OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE
Menace of Examination Malpractice
Recent reports from respected
leaders in this country show that ‘many Nigerian graduates are unemployable.’ There are many reasons for this. One of them is the low or fallen standard of
our
education. Would it so much surprise you to find graduates who cannot speak
correct English? Are you unaware that many universities abroad now reject our
certificates? It is well established that many of our graduates cannot defend
the certificates they lay claim to. One of the reasons for all these is
examination malpractice.
Examination malpractice is a major
challenge facing not only our educational system but the overall development
and progress of our nation. Like a canker-worm it has eaten very deep into the
fabrics of the society, and indeed all facets of our educational system; from
the primary to the university level. Students, and strange enough parents
and even teachers have been noted to be involved one way or the other.
According to a university
researcher, examination malpractice “has proven to be an incurable disease in
the educational system making nonsense of the educational standards”. A writer
on the incidence of examination malpractice noted that “it is a reflection of
moral decadence of our country.” A group of writers sees it as the features of
a society that nurtures cheats and mediocre and turn them to celebrities.
Thisday (a popular Nigerian newspaper) describes it as the “silent epidemics”
(27-05-08). All these go to describe the extent to which the evil of
examination malpractice has gone.
The evil of this terrible monster is unquantifiable. How we can have a corrupt free state when examination malpractice remains a flourishing business. Where is the place of good educational standard in the midst of massive academic dishonesty? How can our graduates be employable when possibly some of them cheated their way through? It is regrettable, but the truth is that the future seems to be unpromising unless an urgent step is taken to get this hydra-headed monster arrested. The question that readily comes to mind is "what is responsible for examination malpractices"?
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